Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!novia!uunet!chi.uu.net!dfw.uu.net!news2.amd.com!news.amd.com!canntp.amd.com!txnntp.amd.com!not-for-mail From: Clive Dawson Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Fwd: Dave Poole Lost at Sea? Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 15:18:28 -0600 Organization: AMD Lines: 107 Message-ID: <38288FA4.E81316EB@dvorak.amd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: labuena.amd.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: amdint2.amd.com 942182308 25359 163.181.232.165 (9 Nov 1999 21:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@amd.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Nov 1999 21:18:28 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:6163 Here's an item forwarded by MRC which might be of interest, especially to those who remember Dave. Clive Dawson ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Crispin Subject: Dave Poole may be lost at sea If this is true, it is sad news. For those of you who don't know, Dave Poole was the heart and soul of the Foonly. When the Foonly project at SAIL died, many of his designs were subsequently taken over by DEC and became the KL10. Poole subsequently formed the Foonly company, and built a single Super Foonly (a.k.a. the Foonly F1), the fastest PDP-10 ever built, that was installed at III. The Super Foonly was used to produce the graphics used in the movie "TRON". He subsequently built smaller-scale systems, the F2 and F3 (which were KS10 scale), and the F4 which subsequently became Tymshare's 26XL PDP-10 clone that competed with System Concepts' SC-30M. ** Begin Forwarded Message ** Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:50:00 -0800 (PST) From: Les Earnest Subject: David Poole Lost at Sea? Vic Scheinman writes: KCBS said this morning that: The Coast Guard has abandoned a search off Alaska for a Mountain View man named David Poole. He's presumed lost after his 52ft. boat was hit by winds of 80-100mph in Glacier Bay. There is also an article in this morning's San Jose Mercury News on page 2B. I know that there is more than one David Poole in the world -- for example, I know another one in North Carolina -- but inasmuch as our former colleague was an avid sailor who was involved in two catastrophic sinkings while he was at SAIL, I would sadly guess that it is probably him. Martin Frost writes: The info below comes from the Coast Guard web site for Alaska, in a release dated yesterday. http://www.uscg.mil/d17/allnews/news99/23499.htm In an unrelated search also in southeast Alaska, the Coast Guard suspend efforts at 3:55 p.m. to find David Poole. Poole left Mt. View, Calif., in September aboard his 52-foot sailboat, the Bird, on a lone trip to southeast Alaska, according to his friend Barbara Aschenbrenner. Aschenbrenner reported Poole missing Friday after she hadn't heard from him in eleven days. Poole last contacted Aschenbrenner Oct. 25 after fueling in Hoonah. Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard used a Sitka-based helicopter to search Glacier Bay and issued radio broadcasts, asking mariners to report any information they may have about Poole's whereabouts. Saturday, a fishing vessel crew found a refrigerator from the Bird in Glacier Bay and contacted the Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel talked with the craftsman, who custom built the refrigerator, and learned that it must be disassembled to be removed from the vessel. This lead Coast Guard officials to suspect the Bird broke apart and sank, according to Lt. Randy Sundberg, a rescue coordinator at the Coast Guard command center here. Saturday, the Coast Guard used a Kodiak-based C-130 to search for Poole throughout southeast Alaska. Pilots from the Juneau CAP squadron also searched Glacier Bay. Today the 110-foot Coast Guard cutter Liberty, a Sitka-based helicopter, CAP personnel and National Park Service personnel searched for Poole, finding chunks of blue fiberglass, an extra-large lifejacket, a blue tote and other debris suspected to have come from the Bird. Searchers logged more than 67 hours before suspending their efforts to locate Poole. ------- End of forwarded message -------